97421819 69a96b52dc m Problems With Xbox 360
by Long Zheng

The Xbox 360 video game console is subject to numerous technical problems that can extract it unusable.

Many of the issues can be recognized by a series of red lights flashing on the face of the console the three flashing red lights also known as “Red Ring of Death” being the most infamous which every gamer is avoiding off. This kind of problem is just like a dreadful disease that everyone is scared of. There are other problems that arise with the console, such as discs becoming scratched in the drive and bricking of system unit due to dashboard updates.

The E74 error is also one of the Xbox 360 problem that is specified when the lower-right quadrant of the ring indicator flickers red and displaying an error message saying “E74 System Error, “Contact Xbox Customer Support”.

The error is caused when there’s a video problem, because the Xbox 360′s hardware scaler chip is damaged due to the overheating of the system. When these errors occur on your system it will enable to decrease the resolution graphic interface of your game console thus slowing down the swiftness of the game.

Another error you may experience is the error code 0020 or the “unknown error code”. The X-Clamps warp the board which can cause the GPU to lose good contact with the heat sink and the crap thermal compound doesn’t work. This is just a minor problem that most often time could be fixed in just a couple of minutes.

The overheating of your system is one problem that you should not be ignored. The Xbox 360 video game console is very complicated and fragile type. The game console heats up during excessive use, and given enough time, the temperature inside can reach very high stages due to unsatisfactory cooling.

An overheated Xbox 360 is indicated by both left quadrants lighting up red. Because of the way the Xbox 360 is constructed, this may result in stresses building up between the delicate ball grid arrays solder joints of the CPU and GPU and the motherboard causing them to break. The problem is exacerbated by the specific type of lead free solder used a type which is more brittle than the older tin/lead solder that was used in the past and the GPU’s location directly underneath the DVD drive.

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